This McLaren F5000 car is brutal and beautiful

Tubes! Trumpets Aluminum!

F1 cars are fragile, all finesse and fettling and nervous revving. This 1969 McLaren M10-A Formula 5000 car is a swaggering, unapologetic torpedo powered by a 5-liter
V8 sprouting all manner of intake trumpets and snaking headers.

Inspired by the brash, no-prisoners style of Can-Am racing, F5000 had its heyday right around the time this car was produced. The McLaren you're looking at is a precision tool for face-warping, bowel-wrenching speed, and it looks the part in bare aluminum with a black nose. It presumably sounds as incredible as it looks and goes like hell, but I could just stare at the protrusions and tubing coming off the
SBC all day.

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The skill required to keep this thing on the track, not to mention the wallet required to keep it running, likely presents a high bar to entry, but at $159,500 this seems like a lot of car. Plus it comes with a trailer's worth of spares. It's at Fantasy Junction, a place whose inventory is like a lurid gearhead daydream.